Happy Friday the 13th!

Well, my day has already taken a turn for the worse, but then, it had yesterday by this time as well,so perhaps it isn't attributable to the bad luck of the day. In honor of the day, why not surf around OldSuperstitions.com , a site loaded with information about what, exactly is good luck and bad.

This site would have been a boon to me when I was in eighth grade. I remember that on Friday the 13th that year, I and a friend of mine (Jeff Holland, I believe)tried to do every possible good luck thing to counteract the bad luck of the day. I remember bringing a small pack of salt to toss over my shoulder throughout the day. Yes, I was even stranger when I was in Middle School.

Geez... middle school.. I hardly ever think about that. Not a lot of good events, I guess. Getting beat up on the playground... getting caught flinging peas with a spoon and having to stay in wiping tables rather than going out to get beat up... renaming the suddenly non-PC 'Schmear the Queer' as 'rugby' so that we could keep playing a game that was worse than getting beat up... slipping love notes through locker doors... sharing a locker with a guy who left his lunches in the bottom all semester... having a teacher tell me that I was stuck up (a teacher, mind you - Malmon, you're a bitch). My, what joyful days.. And all this musing about 8th grade reminds me of our favorite joke from the year:
Q. Do snakes have teeth?
A. That depends on whether they walk to school or carry their lunch.

Strange and pointless (and weren't we, too?), but we loved it most because one of our classmates kept insisting that she "got it", but refused to explain what was funny about it. We got no end of joy from tormenting her on the topic (lest you think I was a blameless victim in those days). God I'm glad I'm not in school any more.